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Should local people lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations,
or superhighways displace them from their homes? What if the
process of resettlement were made accountable to those impacted,
empowering them to achieve just outcomes and to share in the
benefits of development projects? This book seeks to answer these
questions, putting forward powerful counterfactual case studies to
assess what problems real-world development projects would likely
have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as
the World Commission on Dams policy framework. Drawing on
contributions from leading and emerging scholars from around the
world, this book considers cases involving dams, mines, roads,
housing, amongst others, from Asia, Africa, and South America. In
each case, the counterfactual approach invites us to reconsider the
dynamics of accountability and the asymmetries of power relations
in the negotiation of displacement benefits and redress.
Considering a range of theoretical and ethical perspectives, the
book concludes with practical alternative policy suggestions. This
book’s novel approach to the dynamics of governance,
accountability, and (dis)empowerment in development projects with
displacement and resettlement will appeal to academic researchers,
development practitioners, and policy makers.
The problem of escalating population displacement demands global
attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the
particular issue of development-induced displacement, whereby land
is seized or restricted by the state for the purposes of
development projects. Those displaced by these schemes often risk
losses to their homes, livelihoods, food security, and
socio-cultural support; for which they are rarely fully
compensated. Bringing together 22 specialist researchers and
practitioners from across the globe, this book provides a
much-needed independent analysis of country frameworks for
development-induced displacement spanning Asia, Africa, Central and
South America. As global competition for land increases, public and
private sector lenders are lightening their social safeguards,
shifting the oversight for protecting the displaced to national law
and regulations. This raises a central question: Do countries have
effective ways of addressing the risks and lost opportunities for
their people who are displaced? While many countries remain
impervious to the problem, the book also shines a light on the few
who are pioneering new legislation and strategies, intended to
address questions such as: should the social costs to those
displaced help determine whether a project meets the public
interest and merits financing? Does the modern state need powers of
eminent domain? How can country laws, systems, institutions and
negotiations be reformed to protect citizens better against
disempowering public and private sector development displacement?
This book will interest those working on forced and voluntary
migration, property and expropriation law, human rights,
environmental and social impact assessment, internal and refugee
displacement from conflicts, environment change, disasters and
development.
Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region
has for decades experienced more than half of the world's natural
disasters and, in recent years, a disproportionately high share of
extreme weather-related disasters, which displaced 19 million
people in 2013 alone. This volume offers an innovative and
thought-provoking Asia-Pacific perspective on an intensifying
global problem: the forced displacement of people from their land,
homes, and livelihoods due to development, disasters and
environmental change. This book draws together theoretical and
multidisciplinary perspectives with diverse case studies from
around the region - including China's Three Gorges Reservoir,
Japan's Fukushima disaster, and the Pacific's Banaba resettlement.
Focusing on responses to displacement in the context of power
asymmetries and questions of the public interest, the book
highlights shared experiences of displacement, seeking new
approaches and solutions that have potential global application.
This book shows how displaced peoples respond to interlinked
impacts that unravel their social fabric and productive bases,
whether through sporadic protest, organised campaigns, empowered
mobility or; even community-based negotiation of resettlement
solutions. . The volume will be of great interest to researchers
and postgraduate students in development studies, environmental and
climate change studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography,
international law and human rights.
Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region
has for decades experienced more than half of the world's natural
disasters and, in recent years, a disproportionately high share of
extreme weather-related disasters, which displaced 19 million
people in 2013 alone. This volume offers an innovative and
thought-provoking Asia-Pacific perspective on an intensifying
global problem: the forced displacement of people from their land,
homes, and livelihoods due to development, disasters and
environmental change. This book draws together theoretical and
multidisciplinary perspectives with diverse case studies from
around the region - including China's Three Gorges Reservoir,
Japan's Fukushima disaster, and the Pacific's Banaba resettlement.
Focusing on responses to displacement in the context of power
asymmetries and questions of the public interest, the book
highlights shared experiences of displacement, seeking new
approaches and solutions that have potential global application.
This book shows how displaced peoples respond to interlinked
impacts that unravel their social fabric and productive bases,
whether through sporadic protest, organised campaigns, empowered
mobility or; even community-based negotiation of resettlement
solutions. . The volume will be of great interest to researchers
and postgraduate students in development studies, environmental and
climate change studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography,
international law and human rights.
The problem of escalating population displacement demands global
attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the
particular issue of development-induced displacement, whereby land
is seized or restricted by the state for the purposes of
development projects. Those displaced by these schemes often risk
losses to their homes, livelihoods, food security, and
socio-cultural support; for which they are rarely fully
compensated. Bringing together 22 specialist researchers and
practitioners from across the globe, this book provides a
much-needed independent analysis of country frameworks for
development-induced displacement spanning Asia, Africa, Central and
South America. As global competition for land increases, public and
private sector lenders are lightening their social safeguards,
shifting the oversight for protecting the displaced to national law
and regulations. This raises a central question: Do countries have
effective ways of addressing the risks and lost opportunities for
their people who are displaced? While many countries remain
impervious to the problem, the book also shines a light on the few
who are pioneering new legislation and strategies, intended to
address questions such as: should the social costs to those
displaced help determine whether a project meets the public
interest and merits financing? Does the modern state need powers of
eminent domain? How can country laws, systems, institutions and
negotiations be reformed to protect citizens better against
disempowering public and private sector development displacement?
This book will interest those working on forced and voluntary
migration, property and expropriation law, human rights,
environmental and social impact assessment, internal and refugee
displacement from conflicts, environment change, disasters and
development.
Social assessment for projects in China is an important emerging
field. This collection of essays - from authors whose formative
work has influenced the policies that shape practice in
development-affected communities - locates recent Chinese
experience of the development of social assessment practices
(including in displacement and resettlement) in a historical and
comparative perspective. Contributors - social scientists employed
by international development banks, national government agencies,
and sub-contracting groups - examine projects from a practitioner's
perspective. Real-life experiences are presented as case-specific
praxis, theoretically informed insight, and pragmatic
lessons-learned, grounded in the history of this field of
development practice. They reflect on work where economic
determinism reigns supreme, yet project failure or success often
hinges upon sociopolitical and cultural factors.
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